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These guys are loved and celebrated by their people, whether they deserve to be or not, but have a hard time getting admiration from anyone else. It could be that the outside world simply does not know of their good deeds, but it's more likely they did something to make the outside world very upset. Their comrades may not know the details, they may not care about what makes other people angry, or they may not believe the accusations of the outsiders. Another case is that people are not impressed with a so-called hero, seeing him as a big fish in a small pond. Whatever reasons these heroes be unheard of, hated, or disrespected, they can rest assured knowing they are heroes to their hometowns. Related To Realpolitik, compare also: Values Dissonance, Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters, Villain with Good Publicity, Hero with Bad Publicity. An Affably Evil or Well-Intentioned villain is especially likely to be this. May be a consequence of the hero's Moral Myopia (as well as the community's, if they both know he's doing horrible things to other people and support him despite it... or because of it). Contrast: Never Accepted in His Hometown, No Hero to His Valet, 100% Heroism Rating. Might contrast or overlap with Hated Hometown, depending on the specific reason for the dislike. Despite the name, it has little to do with Homegrown Hero, which is a story about someone from the area it is told in. |
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Played with in Worm, The Undersiders (and Skitter in particular) become this for Brockton Bay when they risk their lives fighting threats like the Merchants and the Slaughterhouse Nine, and do it better than the superheroes. Later on, the issue is complicated when Cauldron's masquerade starts to break down. In particular, the Los Angeles Protectorate sees Skitter as a hero and Alexandria as a hypocrite. | |
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A more recent Pittsburgh example is Britt Baker, who's been AEW's top women's heel since 2020... except when AEW comes to that city, the nearest major city to her hometown of Punxsutawney and also where she attended dental school in real life. | |
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Fire Emblem King Travant in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 is adored by the people of Thracia for his unflagging efforts to bring the country out of the poverty and deprivation it suffered after it and its verdant northern neighbor, Munster, were split from one nation into two. The rest of the world sees him as a dangerous mercenary because he will use absolutely any method to achieve this goal, but the Thracians' loyalty to their king causes problems for Seliph and the Liberation Army when they have to fight there. Micaiah in Part III of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. She's despised by the Laguz Alliance for trying to trap their army between hers and Begnion's without warning, and later crippling the Apostle's Army by ambushing them in a canyon and almost burning them alive, yet the people of Daein, due to her role as the spearhead of Daein's liberation, revere her to the point of fanaticism. Veronica in Fire Emblem Heroes is the princess of the Emblian Empire who led the invasion to the home kingdom of the protagonists, using subjugated spirits of Fire Emblem series characters as foot soldiers. Yet her subjects cheer on her conquest, the people she conquered are treated justly like any of her citizens, and said spirits she subjugated grow fond of her. It's to the point that when her cousin Letizia attempts to have her executed on trumped up charges to take Embla's throne, the Emblian people raise up in rebellion because they won't suffer slander of their princess. |
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The Great Devourer from Angel had to rely on a lot of deceptions to get by everywhere, except for its first home, where everyone loved it despite knowing exactly what it was and still did long after it had abandoned them. | |
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Bull Nakano has been booked as a villain and booed in all her appearances outside of Japan. WWE planned to change that when she worked for them before she got herself fired over cocaine. She was cheered when she returned to the US for RISE but then she tried to attack her old rival Madusa with nunchucks before forming a new version of Gokumon-to to beat down Cheerleader Melissa for no reason. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Everyone in Felix's game loves him. Outside the game, he's mistrusted and put into dangerous situations. | |
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In My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Koichi becomes a beloved local icon in his hometown of Naruhata for his constant self-imposed public services and heroism by helping Knuckleduster and Pop fight villains. Meanwhile, the police are very much not pleased with his vigilante activities and want to bring him in for breaking vigilantism laws (though a number of pro heroes are willing to look the other way for his sake). As a pro hero in the U.S., he's plagued by lawsuits, debt, and bad press from being "the Destructor of Naruhata" along with some Open Mouth, Insert Foot moments caused by the language barrier. Meanwhile, everyone back home watches his efforts online and continues cheering for him despite his less-than-ideal start to his hero career. | |
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The Herald of Andraste has a similar situation in Dragon Age: Inquisition, especially in the first act. After the prologue, the people in the village of Haven see them as practically The Messiah sent by The Maker to save them all, and this is also the opinion of some beyond Haven; but just as many think the Herald is, at best, an upstart who will tear apart the main religion. At worst, people think they are the one responsible for all the problems. To those in the Inquisition, though, they're a Hope Bringer, and unlike Hawke, things improve for them over the course of the game as they become the Inquisitor, who commands a level of respect roughly on par with that of royalty. | |
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Tom Wachowski from Sonic the Hedgehog (2020). Whenever something goes wrong in Green Hills, the first person called is usually Tom. Tom, however, doesn't feel the same way, feeling that he's nothing more than a glorified babysitter. When Robotnik has Sonic and Tom dead to rights in the finale, the townspeople of Green Hills unite to protect their sheriff, which finally gets Tom to see the positive impact he has on their community and stay with his hometown. | |
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In Attack on Titan, the Warriors are either reviled as "Enemies of Humanity" and traitors....or hailed as military heroes devoted to the protection of their motherland. Reiner Braun in particular is adored back home, while despised by his former comrades. | |
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Noted as a trope to be wary of in the Discworld books, since the laws of the planet follow narrative and The Good Guy Wins (even if he isn't really good) in most narratives. | |
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In The Three Worlds Cycle, Rulke is a genocidal nutcase hated by everyone on Santhenar, including his old allies the Zain (who he betrayed). The race known as the Whelm, who flocked to him as their leader, still cherish the memory of him as their strongest leader, even after the mantle of their ruler is taken by someone else. | |
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In Luke Cage (2016), the titular character is a Hero with Bad Publicity due to being framed for several crimes and a smear campaign against superpowered people. The people of Harlem, on the other hand, don't buy the frame-up and regard him as their champion, helping him escape the police and cheering him on during his final fight with Diamondback. For his part, Luke seems just as loyal to them. | |
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Darkseid, not that he's done much good for his people, but they accept his rule anyway. It's everyone else refusing to follow him willingly that makes him search for an anti life equation. | |
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Speaking of AEW heels, the company's top men's heel, MJF, got a monster face reaction in his home area of Long Island in December 2021. During this time, he was in a program with CM Punk, with Punk getting an equally large heel reaction despite being booked as the face. | |
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Trolls: World Tour: While most of the other kingdoms aren't fond of Queen Barb, considering her plan to destroy their cultures so that hers is the only one left, her own people on the other utterly adore her, with her being Loved by All and everyone going along with her plan simply because they love her so much. | |
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WWE's La Résistance (Tag Team) started as a team of French foreign heels and then levitated towards being Quebec partisans. This resulted in them receiving a standing ovation upon winning the tag team titles in Montreal. | |
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Aral Vorkosigan in Vorkosigan Saga is considered a war criminal by many offworlders because he was held responsible for an atrocity on Komarr, which was in truth the act of a subordinate; Aral was never able to completely clear his name, partly because he felt responsible for allowing it to happen behind his back but mainly because the subordinate in question didn't live to be court-martialled when his commander found out what had been done in his name. On Barrayar, while it took him a number of years to overcome the black mark on his record, he is respected enough to hold the office of regent to the child Emperor without significant opposition for decades. | |
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The so called Demon Lord of the Tales of... series is considered to be a wise and just ruler by his subjects and is willing to do anything to ensure their survival, including destroying your player character's world. | |
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The WWF also booked Hakushi as a heel but made him a hometown hero for the Japanese shows. The only time they weren't completely behind him is when he wrestled The Undertaker. | |
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Tanimura from Yakuza 4 was raised by the residents of Little Asia, a ghetto district in Kamurocho where non-Japanese immigrants congregate. To pay them back, Tanimura slacks off work to gamble and extorts businesses that illegally hire immigrants, then passes the cash along to the Asian Gateway program that helps children whose parents were deported. To Little Asia, Tanimura is their beloved son and benefactor; to the rest of Kamurocho, he's a lazy and detestable Dirty Cop. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender the group visit a town called Chin Village that hates the Avatar, and his previous incarnations, and arrest Aang for killing their founder Chin the Great. In reality Chin was a tyrant who conquered half of the Earth Kingdom, and Avatar Kyoshi simply avoided fighting him while he fell to his death in the resulting earthquake he was too stubborn to run away (Aang thinks that makes a difference, but Kyoshi herself disagrees). | |
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Ravana is well-liked in his native Sri Lanka. In stark contrast to his portrayal as a demonic emperor in Ramayana, he's regarded as a scholarly king who functioned as a Science Hero with fantastic inventions and development for his people. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In Ocarina of Time, Ganondorf starts out as King of the Gerudo, and by all accounts enjoys more than a 0% Approval Rating among them despite Nabooru's opposing faction. In The Wind Waker, he states that his original motivation for conquering the green and fertile land of Hyrule was that his people lived in a desert and knew only death and hardship. | |
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In Steven Universe, Jasper spends most of her on-screen ternure depicted as the most outright villainous of the homeworld gems, someone who's actually vicious for its own sake and a jerk even to her allies, up until her motivations and backstory are revealed. Right afterwards, we meet a group of adorable mooks from homeworld who admire her & fangirl about her, indicating that she is considered a famous, inspirational hero back in The Empire, underlining the general War Is Hell motif of season 3 by showcasing how for all their bigoted beliefs, the homeworld gems are still people. | |
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In the Mass Effect series the player character can be this depending on which background you chose. If you select the "Butcher of Torfan" background, Shepard is considered a hero by most humans, but a psychopath by many aliens. | |
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Invoked on Better Call Saul when Kim is defending Huell, a not-too-bright pickpocket who accidentally assaulted a police officer and faces a long prison term. She has Jimmy travel all the way to Huell's hometown of Coushatta, Louisiana and mail out dozens of letters supposedly written by members of a local church congregation. The letters paint Huell as a man who is beloved in his hometown because of the many good deeds he has done, including rescuing a number of elderly people from a fire. Then he sets up dozens of cell phones and pretends to be said churchgoers when the A.D.A. calls the phone numbers provided in the letters. The prosecutor decides that the public backlash from prosecuting someone with such a good reputation is not worth it and agrees to a plea deal where Huell is sentenced to time served. | |
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One fan theory is that Super Mario Bros. enemy Bowser only leads invasions into the Mushroom Kingdom and tries to force a marriage with Peach because his land is barren and he wants better property for his people. What supports this is that in Super Mario RPG and the Mario & Luigi games, it is shown that his subjects continue to follow him out of genuine respect despite his failures, and he does come across as a reasonable (if incompetent) authority figure when dealing with them. | |
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Nascour is set up to take all the heat for the criminal organization Cipher in Pokémon Colosseum. Since you fight him in an arena filled with members of Cipher, though, everyone cheers for him. | |
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The Warbound of Sakaar were no longer this on a technicality. The United States destroyed their hometown, but they were heroes there before then and their invasion makes sense. | |
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Girl Genius runs along more believable characterizations, so there's a lot of this. "Sure, the Heterodynes were dangerous lunatics — but they became our dangerous lunatics!" The Heterodyne lords of the past, until Agatha's father and uncle, raided surrounding territory, sometimes far afield, pillaging, looting, and causing a lot of destruction even aside from the lords' Sparkiness. But they always took care of their people. You may compare the preferred treatment of the Jägermonsters away from, under and in Mechanicsburg. Jaegers are heroes and well-loved inside Mechanicsburg and Heterodyne territory, but because they were the supersoldiers who rode closest to the Heterodyne lords on their raids, many people still fear and hate them. It doesn't help Barry and Bill dismissed them and confined them to Mechanicsburg, rather than try to redeem their reputations; Jaegers will do anything for their lords -including putting up with Bill's wife Lucrezia treating them like objects. |
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Team America: World Police: If the title of the film and its presence on this page weren't enough to tell you, Team America is an example. Some of the antagonists are trying to undermine their popularity at home too. | |
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The protagonist of Tiger Mask was one when he first started fighting in Japan: in America, he was the most hated Foreign Wrestling Heel, but in Japan, he was initially admired by the fans because he was Japanese and fought the American heels. It didn't work for long, as his beatings were terribly savage, and even after his Heel–Face Turn remained hated for a while. | |
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Even at Black Adam's most villainous, the people of Kahndaq looks to him as their protector, since any action he takes, even siding with villains, is to protect them. | |
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Veronica in Fire Emblem Heroes is the princess of the Emblian Empire who led the invasion to the home kingdom of the protagonists, using subjugated spirits of Fire Emblem series characters as foot soldiers. Yet her subjects cheer on her conquest, the people she conquered are treated justly like any of her citizens, and said spirits she subjugated grow fond of her. It's to the point that when her cousin Letizia attempts to have her executed on trumped up charges to take Embla's throne, the Emblian people raise up in rebellion because they won't suffer slander of their princess. | |
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Amos in Dragon Quest VI protects the town of Scrimsley from monsters, and the townspeople adore him for all he does for them. Even after he develops an Involuntary Shapeshifting problem, the townspeople are still extremely protective of him, as he doesn't cause too much damage in his nightly rampages. | |
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Jerry Lawler was God in Memphis. When he went to the WWF and began feuding with Bret Hart, he was a heel, one of the most hated men in the company. When the two faced each other in Memphis (for USWA, not WWF), Lawler was the hero and Bret the villain. | |
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In Metroid Prime: Hunters, it's stated the only way citizens of the Kriken empire can earn respect is by discovering revolutionary technology or by helping to conquer a planet, and most choose the latter. It's also stated the Krikens are one of the most hated factions because of this, so the successful Krikens aren't getting much respect from anyone but other Krikens. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, the legendary thief Rajhin is still beloved by the Khajiit people, even hundreds of years after his death. He is considered a folk hero and, possibly, even a demigod. Given that the Khajiit are a very pragmatic race with no word for "rules" in their language, it should not come as a surprise that a legendary thief is beloved by them. | |
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All of the Straw Hat pirates of One Piece become this. Their friends and families all regard their Wanted Posters as cause for celebration. None of them have much love for the World Government, as they're generally from places the government either fails to protect or actively oppresses. | |
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The Bible: Goliath to the Philistines. He was simply trying to turn a war of attrition around through fulfilling his leaders' orders to call for Combat by Champion, but since he and his people were insistent on defying God, failure was inevitable. | |
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King Travant in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 is adored by the people of Thracia for his unflagging efforts to bring the country out of the poverty and deprivation it suffered after it and its verdant northern neighbor, Munster, were split from one nation into two. The rest of the world sees him as a dangerous mercenary because he will use absolutely any method to achieve this goal, but the Thracians' loyalty to their king causes problems for Seliph and the Liberation Army when they have to fight there. | |
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In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Vilgax is well known as a ruthless alien warlord. In his own planet (where the people renamed the world after him), he is considered their leader and world champion. He is a genuinely good leader and when his world was attacked under Ghostfreak, he was willing to beg his archfoe Ben for help. | |
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All the British Naval officers from Pirates of the Caribbean, the series being set in a time where piracy and all other sorts of things we frown on today were considered okay if you did them in the service of your country. How heroic the films presented them as to the audience varied from individual to individual. | |
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Hilariously subverted in Suicide Squad, where after the Squad helps liberate Australia from an alien invasion, Captain Boomerang fully expects this to be the case with the people of his home country... only for it to turn out that they hate him even more than the rest of the world does, and consider him such a national embarrassment that many citizens claim that he's an American with a fake accent. | |
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Kharn The Betrayer from Warhammer 40,000 is viewed as a traitorous betrayer by most Chaos Space Marines after he killed a bunch of world eaters and emperor's children because they took a break from killing each other to seek shelter from a storm that would have killed them all anyway. He remains popular among the Khorne Berserkers though, just for being so dedicated to shedding blood. | |
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Jin Sakai is this by the end of Ghost of Tsushima. Though his actions as The Ghost crippled the Mongol invasion and saved Tsushima, the shogun dissolves the Sakai clan and brands Jin a traitor. | |
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The City of Townsville is repeatedly attacked without provocation by giant monsters. A large number of these come from Monster Island, where those who manage to survive a fight with The Powerpuff Girls are celebrated as heroes, and just see attacking the city as a way to draw them out. | |
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Aquaman is considered either a joke or a threat by the public at large, but the people of Amnesty Bay love and respect him. | |
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Showdown: No Holding Back: Rosemary doesn’t make a huge impression in the Capitol but is beloved by her District due to her healing services. No less than 3 girls try to volunteer for her, but she refuses to let them. | |
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The premier American example is Kurt Angle, who goes through the Heel–Face Revolving Door... outside of his hometown of Pittsburgh, where five minutes of heel heat is about the best he's ever done. They usually don't boo at all, no matter how much Cheap Heat he tries to invoke. | |
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There was one Superman story where Lex Luthor took over a planet and became a hero to the population living there. He was still considered a super villain to the rest of the universe. | |
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Pokémon trainer Ash Ketchum is a downplayed example. He may be "the pride of Pallet Town", but when he goes to a region outside his native Kanto, it's rare for him to meet someone who already knows who he is. This means that he has to prove himself all over again, which he's only too happy to do. | |
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Edge would sometimes claim to still be popular in Toronto when he got especially searing heat from the crowds of other cities, even those from Canada. He would then claim this made Toronto better than wherever he currently was, which made the booing even louder. | |
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Hawke in Dragon Age II. After becoming Champion of Kirkwall, he/she is respected and even idolized by the general public, while various powerful factions and foreign powers see him/her as a destabilizing influence after the whole mage rebellion thing at the end. The Herald of Andraste has a similar situation in Dragon Age: Inquisition, especially in the first act. After the prologue, the people in the village of Haven see them as practically The Messiah sent by The Maker to save them all, and this is also the opinion of some beyond Haven; but just as many think the Herald is, at best, an upstart who will tear apart the main religion. At worst, people think they are the one responsible for all the problems. To those in the Inquisition, though, they're a Hope Bringer, and unlike Hawke, things improve for them over the course of the game as they become the Inquisitor, who commands a level of respect roughly on par with that of royalty. |
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In Star Wars Legends, Darth Vader is revered as a hero by the Noghri people, after he and The Empire saved their planet from an ecological disaster that was originally the result of an accident during the Clone Wars, but as it turns out, the cleaning up the Empire did was not so much cleaning up as making it appear they were doing that to keep the Noghri perpetually under control. | |
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Doctor Doom is viewed as deceptive, violent, and megalomaniacal, and he does his best to live up to his reputation. Even people who would admire the way he rules his country Latveria don't like him because he will not stop betraying them, breaking their laws, or trying to steal their powers. The people of his country really do like him, though, because Doom is better than the leaders they had before and better than the guys trying to usurp him. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: King Vegeta III. (not to be confused with his son, the antagonist-turned-protagonist rival to Son Goku) was the head exterminator of the Tuffle species. His people loved him so much they made him King and renamed the planet after him. He and his people had a low reputation among the rest of the Dragon Ball universe for their mass murder, naturally. | |
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John Cena plays with this. At the zenith of his X-Pac Heat he got booed straight out of the building by his de facto hometown of Boston, but after it died down, while they're not entirely averse to doing the infamous "Let's Go Cena!/Cena Sucks!" chants, they usually go easier on him than other cities, especially the smarkier ones like Philadelphia. Hell, if Cena is showing a bit of edge and not being all kiddy-pandering like he usually is, they aren't above turning against The Rock for him. | |
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Another Fantastic Four villain, Mole Man, is at least respected by his constituents in Monster Island and Subterranea. They willingly follow him in his attacks against the outside world, which they believe he leads for their own benefit, though part of it is to fuel his unfounded revenge. | |
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The Sewer Urchin on The Tick is, on the surface, a milquetoast punchline. Underground, he's in his element, superbly competent, and feared and respected by sewer dwellers. | |
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Canada's positive reception of wrestlers booked as heels is mirrored in the UK, where local grapplers are frequently guaranteed a positive reaction, regardless of their face/heel alignment. At the most recent UK Raw, William Regal and Wade Barrett both got pops rivaling the biggest faces on the card, despite Barrett being booked as a heel consistently through his WWE run thus far. | |
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Micaiah in Part III of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. She's despised by the Laguz Alliance for trying to trap their army between hers and Begnion's without warning, and later crippling the Apostle's Army by ambushing them in a canyon and almost burning them alive, yet the people of Daein, due to her role as the spearhead of Daein's liberation, revere her to the point of fanaticism. | |
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